Papua New Guinea is a country located in the Southwest of the Pacific Ocean, and back in the 19th century this area of the world was known as Melanesia. Papua New Guinea has a few large cities and its largest, is the capital which is known as Port Moresby.

The entire country has a population of just over 6 million people, as evident from the last census taken from the island. Despite its seemingly small size, it is a very diverse country and more than 800 different dialects are spoken in the country.

The main languages however are:

• English,
• Tok Pisin
• and Hiri Motu.

Thus the economic mainstay of this country is subsistence agriculture.

Arable land in Papua New Guinea is quite plentiful as more than 97% of the total land mass available is arable.

The currency of the country is the Papua New Guinea Kina.

The nature of the terrain in Papua New Guinea makes it difficult for the government of the country to develop a good transportation network.

The country is surrounded by rugged highland mountain areas and dense rainforest’s in its lowland areas making it rather difficult to construct a good transport network.

Certain areas can only reached by plane due to this condition.

The term Papua is a Malay word, which describes the hair of the inhabitants of this country, which is usually of a frizzy nature.

New Guinea or Nuevo Guinea was a termed created by the Spanish Explorer Y�igo Ortiz de Retez, who saw the island in the mid 16th century and concluded that there was a similarity between the inhabitants of this island and those people in the Guinea coast of West Africa.